Pictures of the day: 11 July 2014

Charlotte Ponce, 12, holds up her arm at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Charlotte was mauled by a pet raccoon when she was a baby and is about to get a new ear. A surgeon will attach the organ during a 6 to 8 hour procedure. Dr. Kongkrit Chaiyasate took cartilage from Ponce's ribs in April and carved it into the shape of an ear using a computer-generated template based on the 12-year-old's other ear. He then implanted the ear structure under the skin of Charlotte's forearm. The skin since then has been molding to the ear shape.Picture: AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Robin Erb